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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Barbara Walters

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Earth Education Freedom Literacy Nation Start
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Better Goodness Interview Laughter
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Creature Dog Love Parents Tough Wonderful Yourself
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attraction Compare Sales Woman
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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Feeling Job Value Yourself
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Beyond Cloud Finding Myself Place Thinking
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Children Help Small Training
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Authority Man Woman
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Trouble Yourself
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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Dreams Excel Gain Life Personal Reach Yourself
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Feeling Image Myself Personality
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Control Interview Thinking Yourself
Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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Hands Pieces Show Yourself
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Himself Poet Scripture Thinking
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip Interest Myself People

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